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Originally Posted by Aliantha
In Rwanda, no one was really armed with much more than a machete, and both sides had those. It's just that the aggressors chose to use theirs.
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What tipped the balance into a genocide rather than a hand to hand machete fight was one party had guns and the other did not. Wiki on "Rwandan Genocide:"
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The assassination of [Juvénal] Habyarimana in April 1994 set off a violent reaction, resulting in the Hutus' conducting mass killings of Tutsis and pro-peace Hutus. Primarily responsible were two Hutu militias associated with political parties: the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi. The Hutu Power group known as the Akazu directed the genocide.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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